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octoberlib

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Thu Sep 17, 2020, 03:41 PM Sep 2020

Trump Blames Protests on 'Radical' Lessons About Slavery, Racism

President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced school curricula that emphasize the impact of slavery and racism on American history and blamed “left-wing indoctrination” for nationwide protests against police brutality.

“Patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country,” Trump said in a speech at the National Archives in Washington.

The president claimed U.S. schoolchildren are taught that the U.S. was “founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom” and that they should “feel ashamed of their own history,” a curriculum he called “radical.”

The president on Thursday criticized as “toxic propaganda” the “1619 Project,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning public school curriculum developed by the New York Times that orients American history from the date that the first slave ship arrived in what later became the U.S. He equated certain racial teachings with “child abuse” and argued that the focus on historical sins threatened “to impose a new segregation.” Trump announced he would soon create a “1776 Commission” in an apparent effort to rebut the 1619 Project. The commission will “promote patriotic education,” Trump said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/trump-plans-to-denounce-focus-on-slavery-racism-in-schools?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

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Trump Blames Protests on 'Radical' Lessons About Slavery, Racism (Original Post) octoberlib Sep 2020 OP
Face it, tRUMP. The protests are against your own immense orange ass and your daily abqtommy Sep 2020 #1

abqtommy

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1. Face it, tRUMP. The protests are against your own immense orange ass and your daily
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 04:38 PM
Sep 2020

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